Kate Bingham and Tim Hames The Long Shot: The Inside Story of the Race to Vaccinate Britain Sheldonian Theatre 4:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event Some of the text is a little dry but personally I can’t see a way in which it could be made more digestible, the author has tried their best. A stimulating and rewarding on-stage conversation; a lively informed and tolerant audience; privileged access to the great treasures of the Bodleian, and finally, wonderfully interesting dinner companions to help me conclude the best day I have enjoyed at any festival – anywhere. Ever Obi, Ikenna Okeh and Ivan Sršen The Immigrant’s Story in Modern Fiction CANCELLED Trinity College: Garden Room Levine Building 10:00am Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event Joshua Rozenberg QC is the only full-time journalist to have been appointed Queen’s Counsel honoris causa. After taking a law degree at Oxford he trained as a solicitor. He is an honorary Master of the Bench of Gray’s Inn and a non-executive board member of the Law Commission. Joshua was the BBC’s legal correspondent for 15 years before moving to newspapers. He now presents the popular Radio 4 series Law in Action, which he launched in 1984 and appears regularly on other news networks in the UK and abroad. His forthcoming book Enemies of the People? How Judges Shape Society will be published by Bristol University Press in April 2020. The Jewish Chronicle

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Roger Highfield and Peter Coveney Chaired by Irene Tracey Vice-chancellor’s Interview. Virtual You: How Building Your Digital Twin Will Revolutionise Medicine Sheldonian Theatre 12:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event I don’t agree with many of the automatic reduction of sentences guidelines despite the mitigating factors but at least I now know why some sentences are appalling inadequate. Fastest, I’ve ever listed to an audiobook. Just great. Judge Joseph has used her experience to write 6 vignettes of what she see’s everyday in court.Benedict Macdonald Interviewed by Lucian Hudson Cornerstones: Wild Forces That Can Change Our World Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room 2:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event Absolutely superb. 5 stars for sheer readability alone. Her Honour entertains as she educates us about murder, about the law and about how we human beings are shaped as we create the culture we live with. -- Philippa Perry, author of The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read A gripping, disturbing and deeply humane exploration of the darkest side of the human condition, from a judge who has seen it all. I devoured Unlawful Killings in a single sitting. I cannot recommend it highly enough. The Secret Barrister Joseph wrote an introduction and three trial stories, with the intention only of creating a short pamphlet, from which any proceeds would go to charity. In fact, when the book went out on submission, it attracted great interest and was pre-empted by Transworld in May last year, the acquisition announced as a book by a “judge writing anonymously” because serving judges are not allowed to have a personal profile or any other source of income. So now—it sounds so weird to say it—I suppose I’m a writer Justin Schlosberg, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Iain Dale Chaired by Stephen Law Oxford Debate. Is Our Press Free . . . To Lie and Manipulate? SOLD OUT Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 4:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event

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In Episode 166 Rosalind English talks to Wendy Joseph about the human stories that are played out in the Old Bailey. The Weekly Round-up: Rwanda hearing, planning law reforms, mercy killing reforms for prosecution decisions it's great to find a book written by a legal professional who also knows how to tell a story. the work explains law and criminal justice systems unpatronisingly, starting with the simple ideas, moving to the more complex seamlessly. it's helping make what should be a transparent system more open in gripping prose.

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I met Her Honour Wendy Joseph at the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Fiction Festival in Harrogate last year. I have never knowingly met a Judge before. I've always had that stereotypical view that a judge will be large, and loud and usually male. Her Honour is tiny and soft spoken and gentle and I was a little bit smitten by her! Unfortunately, this did not really land for me. Joseph QC has written a great book here, one which ought to be recommended to all first year Law students, and those considering a career in Law. It does a good job of covering basic principles in the criminal law of murder, but goes no further. In some ways, Joseph QC satisfies the job she set out to establish. It is an effective piece, with a good deal of suspense and provides insight into a judges role. However this is a rather basic, limited insight, with more in the way of entertainment than analysis. Moreover the fictionalised, hodgepodge stories, for me, felt intangible, because the writing made them seem like heightened reality, rather than facts as they might appear in court. I love it when people who’ve had long careers write these sort of books showing the variety of people they’ve encountered along the way. A contrast to younger writers who are trying to make it about them and their “platform”. Every unlawful death tells a story. Every trial involves characters to be understood, motives to be unravelled, plans and methodology to be exposed.” So writes Her Honour Wendy Joseph QC at the beginning of her riveting and revelatory début, Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey (Doubleday) .

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Until her retirement in 2022, Her Honour Wendy Joseph QC (now KC) was a judge at the Old Bailey, sitting on criminal cases, trying mainly allegations of murder and other homicide. When she moved to the Old Bailey in 2012 she was the only woman amongst sixteen judges, and only the third woman ever to hold a permanent position there. Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey is her first book.I inhaled this: brilliant, clear-eyed, compassionate and fascinating. -- Olivia Potts, author of A Half Baked Idea Paterson Joseph Interviewed by Suzi Feay The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho Exeter College: Marquee 12:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event I learnt a great deal from this book, and from Her Honour. There were aspects of the law that surprised me, especially the explanation about the verdicts of guilty and not-guilty and how no one ever tried by a jury is found 'innocent', as there is no such verdict in England and Wales. A verdict of not-guilty only means that the prosecution has not made the jury sure of guilt. Even if a jury concludes the defendant is very probably guilty, they must return a verdict of 'not guilty' - because 'very probably' is not 'sure'. I have thought about this so many time since I read it. It's basic and straight forward, but I'm guessing that many people don't know this, or consider it.

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The night in Oxford was the most beautiful event I have ever done. Not just the spectacular setting (of the Sheldonian), but an unforgettable evening.She has a good amount to say about knife crime in her book, writing compellingly, as one might expect of someone whose teenage ambition was to be a writer, and with great humanity. The release of retirement allows her to speak freely about the inability of the law and increasingly harsh sentencing, most obviously the increased 25 year starting point for knife murders, to have had the slightest deterrent effect on the carrying of knives –‘trying to bash it out of existence isn’t working’. We agree we need an independent, searching inquiry to try to identify what can truly be done to change behaviour. Wendy identifies increasing use of school exclusions, absent fathers and the glamourisation of knives and their use by the internet as obvious factors but says its roots are in socio-economic circumstances, rather than anything else. She immediately accepts that the sentences she was passing on countless young men, some of which were longer than the years they had been alive, was unlikely to rehabilitate them, deter anyone else, or ever be long enough for many families of victims: ‘Our law has not made up its mind what it wants to achieve. It hasn’t worked out the balance between punishment, rehabilitation, and pure retribution.’ But this is what the law required her to do.